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Desire, Fear and Death. I look at them with a sense of detachment. In his latest series of paintings he objectifies the human desire as commodities. Car, a commodity that everyone wants these days comes to play a major role in my works. For me desire is an internal force that makes man to move further. However, it comes with a price. Each fulfillment of desire engenders fear; socio-psychological fear. With the pace of the car man wants to defer death and the passing of time.
My works do not present desire as an object and target of its own. Here the cars are seen in their various stages of collapse. They are cars that met with accidents. Even in their crushed states they look desirable objects. I articulate a possibility of retrieval. These crushed cars with their polished surfaces signify the charm of fear and death. In a reversal process, even death becomes desirable when it is packaged in the most coveted way. These crushed cars open up the possibility of reading the death wish of the contemporary society.
In my works one cannot witness the human being as a victim. They look like sanitized accidents, devoid of blood and pain. They even look like custom made accidents. This detaching of human figures from the scheme of painting is deliberate on my part. My foreboding is that to make the desire possible, the element of agony should be taken out, even if in the final counting desire generates only agony.
I am witness of these accidents. It simulates the mental state with which the people read newspapers or watch television news. Even the goriest of accidents look revoltingly aesthetical when it is mediated through picture and words. The sense of pain that triggers the pangs of the original (accident) is extracted to present the accident as a simulation of it. Simulation, as a copy of copy, in its multiple mediation becomes an object of desire. I engages this notion of desire in my works
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Professional history
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Education
Masters of Visual Arts from Rabindra Bharati University (Jorasanko) , Kolkata
Bachlor of Visual Arts from Rabindra Bharati University (Jorasanko) , Kolkata
Solo Exhibition
2004 Green Wood Gallery, New Delhi
2005 So-et-Loumire, Mumbai
2005 Green Wood Gallery, New Delhi
Group Show
1995 Akademy of Fine arts Kolkata
1995 Rajya Charu Kala Kendra Kolkata
1996 Akademy of fine arts Kolkata
1996 Mooving show on Metro Railway Compartment, Kolkata
1996 Indian Airlines gallery, Kolkata
1997 Birla Annual show, Kolkata
1998 Akademi of Fine arts , Kolkata
200 Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
200 Green wood Gallery, New Delhi
2002 National Gallery of modern Art, Guahati, Assam
2003 Site Specific Show (Installation) German Ambasssador's Residance, Shantiniketan, New Delhi
2004 Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
2007 Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi
Award
1996 Rajy Charu Kala Kendra, Kolkata
1998 East Zonal Youth Festival,Best of Four, Beneras
1999 All India Youth Festival Award Roorkee
Address
Studio J,3-168, D.D.A. flat Kalkaji
New Delhi 110019
India
Mob: 9811908235
samir_chakrabarti@yahoo.com
Passed masters of visual arts from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Now working in Delhi from last 10 years
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| Drawing | Mixed media |
| Painting |
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Renound Raqs Media Collective collect my painting.
Artist Robin mondal personal collections
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